Desires for Build 17?

[jitspoe]

Well, excuse me for getting community input.

[loial21]

Can't even see how that could be an objective to be put into 17 if that is the main purpose.

You mean you dont care, not you cant see.

[Eiii]

You should be ashamed, jits.

[TinMan]

Here's some more of my crazy desires...er, at least the ones that relate to dpball:
The Counterstrike/Quake4 thing where in the upper right corner the kills are listed with images between names to show what killed them.
Also I know that this already works as observer, but have the name of the player that you are aiming at show up over their head, this comes in handy with team planning because you'd be able to know the names of the players that are near you so you can communicate with them and plan a rush, or to defend the flag.

[Gibb]

I still think a match mode would help standardize the matching process in the community.  PBCup match format already touches on some of this, but we have to do a lot of it manually.  Basically you have 1 person from each team enter in a command to make them the captain.  Only they can talk in mm1 during the match, everyone else is forced to talk in mm2.  Both teams can join up on their sides as soon as they join the server, but the countdown wont start until everyone types /ready in the console.  If for any reason the game becomes 3v4 or 2v3 because a player got disconnected, overflowed, etc, the following round is delayed until teams are made even or everyone types /ready again in the console.  I've heard of matches where people just get frustrated and leave the server, so although thats a very immature way to handle a loss, both teams should not be punished and become stuck in the game until its even teams again.  Clans can be given timeouts (by typing /to or /time in the console) which last for 20-30 seconds...This allows clans to make substitutions if need be, or quickly rework a strategy.

I know I suggested it before, but I really think this would be the best thing for matches in DP.

[bitmate]

The /ready command sounds quite reasonable, because there can be 1-2 minutes of warm-up before each map in this case. (Maybe there must be a time limit until the match actually starts, in the unlikely case a whole clan / single player doesn't type /ready.)
The idea with timeouts sounds good as well, maybe giving a team like 2 timeouts 30sec each during one map.

All of your suggestions are representing match modes in EnemyTerritory, which are really great. So in my opinion, adding these rules / commands to pball would help to improve the match style.

[loial21]

Hello,

This is Loial and I fully endorse Gibb's idea for the next build if not sooner.

Thank you my fellow DP patrons and matrons.

Approved by the committee for better gaming experiences.

[jitspoe]

* jitspoe goes back in time to implement gibb's idea sooner than the next build.

[loial21]

All I care about is Gibbs satisfaction! Seeing as how Rust is no more, shame on you Rust!

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[Raoul_Duke]

TOPSPEED ON SCOREBOARDS!!!!!!!

[loial21]

WHAT!!! NO!! well perhaps? A Client side feature?

[blaa]

I wish u could do /ignore mm1 in game.

/ignore mm1 would work in matches, but in pub u would first have to do /players, then see the persons # and then /ignore 1

I hope this will some day come. So we can match with tr again (their mm1 is pathetic and disturbing)

[Spydie]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but to stop respawn killing, have a player blink and be invincible for 3 seconds or so when they respawn.. sounds like a good idea to me. thanks

[XtremeBain]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but to stop respawn killing, have a player blink and be invincible for 3 seconds or so when they respawn.. sounds like a good idea to me. thanks

I think this was played with in PB2 or was seen in QWPB at one point.  I don't think it went over very well though.

[toM|vendettA]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but to stop respawn killing, have a player blink and be invincible for 3 seconds or so when they respawn.. sounds like a good idea to me. thanks

I think this was played with in PB2 or was seen in QWPB at one point.  I don't think it went over very well though.

I used to play Delta Force: Landwarrior and Novalogic implemented a feature exactly like that. When you revived you were invincible for 5 seconds. It didnt help at all, spawn killers just sprayed the person reviving until the 5 seconds was up. Which is exactly how it would happen in dp.

[Playah]

Haha. That what tom mentioned with spraying em 5 secs would look funny...pretty sure

[IronFist]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but to stop respawn killing, have a player blink and be invincible for 3 seconds or so when they respawn.. sounds like a good idea to me. thanks

I think this was played with in PB2 or was seen in QWPB at one point.  I don't think it went over very well though.

I used to play Delta Force: Landwarrior and Novalogic implemented a feature exactly like that. When you revived you were invincible for 5 seconds. It didnt help at all, spawn killers just sprayed the person reviving until the 5 seconds was up. Which is exactly how it would happen in dp.

Some Natural Selection servers have a plugin that does the same thing... It just forces the spawn campers to stand just outside the base and wait a few seconds before entering again.

[Lunatic]

Please, a map pack.

[Eiii]

I don't see anything terrible wrong with spawncamping... If the spawns on the map are placed well, then the spawncamper shouldn't be able to see all the spawns at once. It's like kicking a puppy to death to make sure you aren't killed by dogs in the future.

[GreenAffairz]

Spawnkilling ftw <3